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Mijn zoon (15) vertelt enthousiast dat ze het in de klas hebben over Lucifer. In een poging aan te haken bij zijn belevingswereld, zeg ik: „Leuk, dat is toch die serie van Marvel…

Parijs, Marseille en Lyon blijven links. Radicaal-rechts wint terrein, maar grote winst blijft uit

Het radicaal-rechtse RN greep naast burgemeestersposten in Marseille en Toulon, maar won wel in tal van andere steden. Nu de municipales voorbij zijn, barst de campagne voor de presidentsverkiezingen van 2027 los.

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Elon Musk Announces $20B 'Terafab' Chip Plant in Texas To Supply His Companies

"Billionaire Elon Musk has announced plans to build a $20 billion chip plant in Austin, Texas" reports a local news station:

Musk announced on Saturday night during a livestream on his social media platform X that the plant, called "Terafab," will be built near Tesla's campus and gigafactory in eastern Travis County. The long-anticipated project is a joint venture between Musk-owned properties Tesla, SpaceX and xAI... The Terafab plant is expected to begin production in 2027.


Musk "has said the semiconductor industry is moving too slow to keep up with the supply of chips he expects to need," writes Bloomberg — quoting Musk as saying "We either build the Terafab or we don't have the chips, and we need the chips, so we build the Terafab."

Musk detailed some specific plans, including producing chips that can support 100 to 200 gigawatts a year of computing power on Earth, and chips that can support a terawatt in space, but gave no timelines for the facility or its output... The facility is expected to make two types of chips, one of which will be optimized for edge and inference, primarily for his vehicle, robotaxi and Optimus humanoid robots. The other will be a high-power chip, designed for space that could be used by SpaceX and xAI... Musk said he expects xAI to use the vast majority of the chips.

During the presentation, Musk also unveiled a speculative rendering of a future "mini" AI data center satellite, one piece of a much larger satellite system that he wants SpaceX to build to do complex computing in space. In January, SpaceX requested a license from the Federal Communications Commission to launch one million data center satellites into orbit around Earth. Musk said that the mini satellite he revealed would have the capacity for 100 kilowatts of power. "We expect future satellites to probably go to the megawatt range," Musk said.

Raising money to build and launch AI data centers in space is one of the driving forces behind SpaceX's planned IPO later this year. SpaceX is expected to raise as much as $50 billion in a record-setting IPO this summer which could value it at more than $1.75 trillion, Bloomberg News reported earlier.

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In Our Blood: The Forever Chemicals Scandal review – no one should have to live like this

This upsetting documentary goes to the town with the most terrifyingly high levels of Pfas in the UK, tests the locals and finds that nothing has been done to help them – and now it’s simply too late

Forever chemicals are not a fresh scandal that the world is only learning about now: in 2019 there was a Hollywood movie about them, based on a true story from the late 1990s. Mark Ruffalo was Rob Bilott, the crusading lawyer arguing that a West Virginia chemicals company was poisoning the locale. The film, Dark Waters, concerned per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (Pfas), synthetic compounds that resist oil, water and heat, and which came into wide usage in the 1930s with the invention of Teflon. Their selling point is that they refuse to break down. The problem with them is that they refuse to break down, and once they’re in soil, groundwater, rivers, food or the air, they get into humans’ bloodstream, from where some Pfas are thought to play a role in causing cancer and other serious health conditions.

Yet it took until February this year for the British government to come up with a plan for how to deal with Pfas, and the documentary In Our Blood: The Forever Chemicals Scandal suggests that, for at least one small town, it’s too late. Cameras arrive in Bentham, North Yorkshire, for what is by now the sadly familiar story of a community in northern England of a few thousand people, generations of whom have been proud and grateful to work at the medium-sized business that dominates the local economy. Years later, the people of the town wonder if the thing they helped to make might be bad for their health.

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Resilient Korda stuns Alcaraz in Miami Open after almost letting advantage slip

  • American beats No 1 seed 6-3, 5-7, 6-4 at Miami Open

  • ‘Sebi was incredible today. Played such a great game’

An hour after his first catastrophic attempt at snuffing out the best player in the world, Sebastian Korda stepped up to the baseline to serve for his rollercoaster third-round match against Carlos Alcaraz once again.

It would have been reasonable for the American to feel his tension even more profoundly, to collapse even more dramatically, but his determination won through. In front of his home crowd in his home state, Korda kept his head and held his nerve to close out the greatest upset of the ATP season and his career, defeating the top seed Alcaraz 6-3, 5-7, 6-4 in the third round of the Miami Open.

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Highfarm Road

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Ruined farmhouse, Highfarm Road near Alma, South Australia

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Korda schakelt Alcaraz uit in derde ronde van toernooi Miami

MIAMI (ANP) - Carlos Alcaraz is in de derde ronde van het masterstoernooi van Miami uitgeschakeld. De Spaanse nummer 1 van de wereld verloor in drie sets van de Amerikaan Sebastian Korda: 3-6 7-5 4-6.

Alcaraz zegevierde in 2022 op het toernooi van Miami. De als eerste geplaatste Spanjaard won dit kalenderjaar al de Australian Open en het toernooi van Doha.

In de eerste set sloeg Korda, de nummer 36 van de wereldranglijst, met een break toe op 4-3 om vervolgens de set uit te serveren. In de tweede set pakte Korda ook een break voorsprong, maar in plaats van de wedstrijd uit te serveren op 5-4, leverde hij zijn opslagbeurt in en daarna nog een keer om zo de set te verliezen. Korda won op 3-3 in de derde set de opslagbeurt van Alcaraz. Hij benutte op 5-4 zijn tweede matchpoint.


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Russians are posing as Signal support to launch phishing attacks

Plus: US takes down Iranian propaganda sites; Marketing company asks 'Why Do We Have Your Information?' And more!

Infosec In Brief  Russian intelligence-affiliated parties are posing as customer support services on commercial messaging applications such as Signal to compromise accounts and conduct phishing attacks, the FBI and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warned last Friday.…

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